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Dow rallies 200 points to kick off May as Microsoft, Meta rekindle AI trade: Live updates
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Dow rallies 200 points to kick off May as Microsoft, Meta rekindle AI trade: Live updates

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on May 1, 2025. NYSE Stocks rose on Thursday after strong quarterly results from two Big Tech players eased concerns that artificial intelligence progress would slow amid economic turmoil. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 210 points, or 0.5%. The S&P 500 traded up […]

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Meta’s Reality Labs posts .2 billion loss in first quarter
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Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.2 billion loss in first quarter

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries on Orion AR glasses at the Meta Connect annual event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., September 25, 2024. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta is continuing to sink billions of dollars a quarter into the metaverse. In its first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, Meta said […]

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Meta to report first-quarter earnings after the bell
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Meta to report first-quarter earnings after the bell

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta is set to report its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, and investors will be looking for any signs that President Donald Trump’s tough China tariffs are affecting the […]

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Meta’s AI spending comes into focus amid Trump’s tariff policies
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Meta’s AI spending comes into focus amid Trump’s tariff policies

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks on before the luncheon on the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second Presidential term in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Mark Zuckerberg’s plan is to make Meta the market leader in artificial intelligence. Investors will want to know how President Donald Trump’s tariffs-heavy trade […]

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Corporate America shelled out millions for Trump’s inauguration. Now he’s upending many of their businesses
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Corporate America shelled out millions for Trump’s inauguration. Now he’s upending many of their businesses

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting at the Business Roundtable headquarters on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC.  Andrew Harnik | Getty Images America’s richest and most powerful companies shelled out millions to fund President Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities. Three months later, some may be asking whether the famously […]

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The biggest questions facing Big Tech ahead of earnings
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The biggest questions facing Big Tech ahead of earnings

Guests including Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk attend the inauguration of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the U.S. Julia Demaree Nikhinson | Getty Images As tech’s megacap […]

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram from Facebook in 2018: FTC trial
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram from Facebook in 2018: FTC trial

Thilina Kaluthotage | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning out Instagram in 2018 on concerns about the rising threat of antitrust litigation against Facebook, according to an email presented Tuesday in a Washington, D.C. courtroom. During Zuckerberg’s second day of testimony in Meta’s antitrust trial with the Federal Trade Commission, lawyers […]

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Meta resorted to ‘buy-or-bury scheme’ with Instagram and WhatsApp deals, former FTC Chair Lina Khan says
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Meta resorted to ‘buy-or-bury scheme’ with Instagram and WhatsApp deals, former FTC Chair Lina Khan says

Former U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said Monday that Facebook “panicked” when making the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp as smartphone use took off. “It saw companies like Instagram and WhatsApp experiencing astronomical growth, and that’s the point at which it resorted to this buy-or-bury scheme where, if it couldn’t outcompete a rival, […]

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Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk each lose more than  billion after Trump tariffs spark market meltdown
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Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk each lose more than $23 billion after Trump tariffs spark market meltdown

As President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs announcement sent shockwaves across Wall Street, the world’s richest people lost billions of dollars in net worth almost overnight. On Wednesday, Trump announced a baseline 10% tariff for imported goods from all countries set to take effect on April 5, and “individualized” tariffs as high as 50% on a […]

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UFC signs wide-ranging sponsorship deal with Meta, bringing Mark Zuckerberg closer to Dana White
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UFC signs wide-ranging sponsorship deal with Meta, bringing Mark Zuckerberg closer to Dana White

UFC CEO Dana White, left, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attend the UFC 300 event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 13, 2024. Jeff Bottari | Ufc | Getty Images TKO Group’s UFC has struck a multimillion-dollar, multiple-year partnership deal with Meta that will bring the mixed martial arts league closer to Mark […]

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